Conatus: REVISED EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

C O N A T U S

Table of Contents

PREFACE 7

1. INTRODUCTION - TRUTH, GOODNESS AND BEAUTY11

TRUTH 19

2. FOUNDATIONS 21

3. TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE 51

4. A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING? 67

5. ETERNITY 73

6. WHERE THE WORLD FIRST SPLITS 79

7. SIMPLE SPLITS AND MYSTERIAN SPLITS! 85

8. ANOTHER SPLIT — MIND AND BODY 97

9. CONSCIOUSNESS 107

10. TAKING THINGS TO THE NEXT LEVEL 117

11. PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS ON THE SOUL 121

12. A RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF SOUL 129

13. TURNING TO RELIGION 133

14. CONTENDERS FOR THE BIG PICTURE 155

VALUE 171

15. QUALITY 173

16. VALUE, MEANING AND PURPOSE 177

GOODNESS 185

17. FREE WILL 187

18. META-ETHICS 201

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